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...significantly to social spending at the same time. A report issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office concludes that Carter's goal is attainable only if the economy grows by more than 5% every year. Even if growth is that robust, the office figures that the maximum sum available for additional social spending by 1980 will be $50 billion-not nearly enough to cover the costs of such ambitious programs as national health insurance. There is no easy escape from Carter's dilemma. Before his first term ends, he is doubtless going to have to make...
...salesman: though his loan would be unsecured-since a vacation cannot be foreclosed or repossessed-he would have little trouble getting it. Only one lender, People's Finance Co. of Somerville, Mass., expressed reluctance. If the salesman were salaried, he would get $1,000-the company's maximum to anybody-at 18% interest. If he worked on commission, Manager Edmund Naddaff would turn him down flat. Why? Like many people in the business, Naddaff has his own intriguing theory: a commission salesman, he says, is likely to be "manic-depressive as a person" and thus a poor credit...
...eleven-day probe of allegations that companies were hoarding gas on fields leased from the Government had raised enough questions to warrant a full-scale investigation of the industry's production practices. The study found that output in four of the five fields examined was 36% below the maximum production rate, and that many readily drillable gas reservoirs remained untapped. If the investigation uncovers evidence of illegality-for example, deliberate falsification of records of reserves-the case could be turned over to the Justice Department for possible action...
...another fear is that minimal competency might turn into maximum competency as well. Says Titus Singletary, an associate state school superintendent in Georgia: "We must be wary of tailoring our programs to meet one need and concentrating so much on it that we don't teach anything else." And, of course, there is the ultimate question: What to do with the student who fails...
...trial's judge. Other officials were implicated. Whatever the jury's findings, the negative publicity will probably have a lasting effect. Due to the ineffectiveness of U.S. Attorney James N. Gabriel, this is the only significant political scandal to break in Massachusetts in recent years. The case is receiving maximum exposure...